She grew up in a republican and liberal family, linked to both English and French culture, and studied at St. Julian's School in Carcavelos, spending her childhood and adolescence in Estoril. In the 1950s, her father encouraged her to pursue her artistic career away from the Portugal of Salazar's dictatorship, and Paula Rego enrolled at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Art in London, aged just 17. She met several artists at the school, including her future husband, Victor Willing, whom she married in 1959 and with whom she would later have three children. Paula Rego in her Studio Having divided her time between Portugal and London throughout the 1960s, Paula Rego settled permanently in London in 1976.
BRCP People and Organizations. Las Meninas de Velázquez a 360º. Pretendiendo explorar el espacio que rodeó a Velázquez cuando pintó su gran obra maestra, se continúa el cuadro hasta completar una panorámica de 360º en cualquier dirección desde el punto de vista del observador que induce el pintor y más cercano al gran espejo apoyado en la pared anterior de su taller.